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cryptography

Today it means: The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. Full definition →

Latin cryptographia ← Ancient Greek κρῠπτογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ

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Ancient Greek · derived fromκρῠπτογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ
Latin · borrowed fromcryptographia
English todaycryptography

Borrowed from Latin cryptographia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κρῠπτογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (krŭptogrăphĭ́ā). By surface analysis, crypto- + -graphy.

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